Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he (who claimed never to have…

— Donna Tartt

“Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I…

— Peter Heller

“For the briefest instant, his brain was the only thing that reacted. Mistake, thought his brain. Then the mouthful of water, mixed with what…

— Stuart McLean

“Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with…

— Juliet Marillier

“I wanted to rest my eyes on green meadows. I wanted to sit on green grass under the shade of a green tree. I…

— Kate Forsyth

“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places,…

— Richard Bausch

“At that instant the smoking mouths of the rifles were aimed at him and letter by letter he heard the encyclicals that Mequiades had…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce

“He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story’s essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls…

— Haruki Murakami

“He reflected on his hitherto reflection that soldiers and sailors were, upon the whole, quite different creatures. ‘And perhaps they are, too: yet perhaps…

— Patrick O'Brian